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Why Rubyists Should Care About Messaging (A High Level Intro)

8 months ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Messaging in the context of application architecture (grandly referred to as message oriented middleware on Wikipedia) is similar to messaging in the real...

How to Install and Use Postgres On OS X For Ruby and Rails Development

8 months ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
I hang out in #nwrug on Freenode, the IRC channel of a Ruby user group here in the UK, and floated the idea of doing a PostgreSQL (a.k.a. Postgres) installation...

How To Get That Edge Ruby Faster-Loading-Hotness in Ruby 1.9.2 Now

8 months ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
A few days ago I told the story of ruby-head (MRI) getting 36% faster loading, perfect for tackling those file-heavy Rails 3 apps. Awesome for Ruby 1.9...

18 New Ruby and Rails Jobs for April 2011

10 months ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Today there are *drumroll* 18 new jobs to share from the Ruby Jobs board from companies like Expedia, Brightbox (the British Rails hosting guys) and LivingSocial...

DHH Offended By RSpec, Says Test::Unit Is Just Great

11 months ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
As an outspoken and opinionated guy, David Heinemeier Hansson (a.k.a. DHH), creator of Rails, is no stranger to a little bit of controversy. He frequently...

Watchr – More Than An Automated Test Runner

11 months ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Watchr is a development tool that monitors a directory tree and triggers a user defined action (in Ruby) whenever an observed file is modified. Its most...

The End of Monkeypatching

11 months ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Monkey-patching is so 2010. We're in the future, and with Github and Bundler there is now rarely a need to monkey-patch Ruby code in your applications.Monkey-patching...

Why The Lucky Stiff’s Delightful Foreword for Beginning Ruby

11 months ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
I started Ruby Inside in May 2006 as a promotional vehicle for my then in-progress book, Beginning Ruby. It eventually went on to be published by Apress...

MacRuby 0.10 Released: XCode 4 Support and App Store Submissions

11 months ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
MacRuby's lead developer and Apple employee Laurent Sansonetti has today released MacRuby 0.10 (yep, that's ten), the latest version of the Mac OS X-focused...

JRuby 1.6 Released: Ruby 1.9.2 Support and More

11 months ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
It's a newsflash! JRuby 1.6.0 has been released today. Congratulations to the JRuby team. 1.6 is a significant and much awaited release and comes after...